Beta Test

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Beta Test

2016,

1h 28m,

Sci-Fi/

Action

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4 Reviews

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22%

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4 Reviews

22%

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A video game tester makes a disturbing discovery about a new shooting game: the game's events are being mirrored in the real world, and the game's protagonist is actually a real person being remotely controlled.

Joe Leydon

Variety

Jul 22, 2016

A real-world first-person shooter causes mayhem in this preposterous sci-fi action-thriller.

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Dann Gire

Chicago Daily Herald

Jul 21, 2016

1.5/4

Beta Test, directed, written and produced by Nicholas Gyeney, squanders a brilliantly inventive action premise with a comically silly disregard for necessary realism.

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Mike McGranaghan

Aisle Seat

Jul 20, 2016

0.5/4

One of the stupidest and most offensive movies I've seen in more than twenty years as a film critic.

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Elias Savada

Film International

Jul 11, 2016

1.5/5

In an attempt to meld the pc gaming world with that of modest-budget movie-making, Beta Test doesn't score many points.

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Leia R

Jan 28, 2019

Claims to have the longest single-shoot fight scene in cinema history. Unfortunately, that's not a compliment. It's the most pointless, illogical part of the whole movie. It's a decent premise and an okay plot, but as the movie becomes more "real world" and less "videogame," the writing and direction actually get more videogammish. This could have been a decent movie--if they hadn't tried to cover weak writing with mediocre, nonsensical action.

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Dec 3, 2017

As a gamer, Beta Test was a fun romp coupled with hideously simplistic allegory. Watch it for the excellent low-budget action rather than the philosophical commentary, which elevates a primitive worldview alongside a brutal dystopian worldview. Natural law is not the end all and be all of mankind, as these filmmakers seem to want everyone to believe. Thank goodness real video games are loaded with far more sophisticated social, philosophical, and economic commentary than this film.

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Anakin P

Nov 25, 2017

The days of B grade films is over. This is D grade! Plot sounded ok but I just couldn't get past the shocking acting and the washed out scenes.

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Albus W

Sep 7, 2017

Couldn't finish watching it

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Synopsis

A video game tester makes a disturbing discovery about a new shooting game: the game's events are being mirrored in the real world, and the game's protagonist is actually a real person being remotely controlled.

Director: Nicholas Gyeney
Producer: Nicholas Gyeney, Larenz Tate, André Kirkman
Screenwriter: Nicholas Gyeney, André Kirkman
Distributor: Mirror Images Ltd.
Production Co: Mirror Images Ltd.
Genre: Sci-Fi, Action
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 22, 2016, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 2, 2016
Runtime: 1h 28m

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